What lessons can be learned from the past, when movie theaters were filled with cinephiles and VHS technology created an alternative cultural space? Underscoring the margins of cinema and media studies, three scholars discuss the long-lasting legacies of the film...
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Grief over the loss of a child is well known to be especially difficult and intractable. Across cultures, people have long turned to poetry in times of mourning. Years after the loss of his five-year old son, Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Global Asias at the University of Washington is a dynamic interdisciplinary initiative that explores the transnational and transcultural connections shaping Asian and Asian American experiences across the world. Bringing together scholars, artists, and communities, Global Asias fosters critical conversations on...
Presenter: Eric Villiers, PhD Candidate, Theatre History and Performance Studies Moderator: Amanda Swarr, Professor, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Museums are exhausting, rarely providing people with opportunities to rest their bodies as they look at the objects within. In many ways, museums...
In just half a century, Taiwan transformed from an agricultural colony into an economic power, spurred by efforts of the authoritarian Republic of China government in land reform, farmers associations, and improved crop varieties. Yet overlooked is how Taiwan brought...
Twenty-first-century climate change poems mourn the dying and possible death of the planet. In this colloquium, Jahan Ramazani will discuss his recent article, “Elegies for the Planet,” on how ecocriticism on the poetics of climate change can help develop and...
In this talk, Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal discusses her book Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation, which received the 2025 Bernard S. Cohn Prize for First Book in South Asia (Association for Asian Studies). The book interrogates how Kashmir was made “integral” to...
Join us for a retrospective reflection on the future of African women and football followed by a Q&A featuring guest speaker Martha Saavedra, faculty and associate director of the Center for African Studies at the University of California in Berkeley. This...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is impacting all areas of academia. Scholars are utilizing AI in every component of research, including the collection, synthesis, analysis, and visualization of data; drafting of articles; and “peer” review of final submissions. The field of Holocaust...